A new report by The National Deaf Children’s Society, published during Deaf Awareness Week (4 - 10 May), reveals that nearly half of all children in the UK with hearing difficulties attending mainstream schools are falling behind their peers.
The findings are drawn from evidence provided by 614 parents of children with mild and moderate deafness and 166 teachers of the deaf from across the UK.
Nearly 70 per cent of parents said their children struggled in classrooms with poor acoustics, background noise or trying to understand speech from a distance.
A third blamed a lack of awareness among staff about their child’s condition.
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